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Benson Grist Mill

Benson Grist Mill
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Established1851 (original)
June 11, 1988 (museum restoration)
LocationStansbury Park, Utah
Typerestoration and replica museum
Visitors10,000 - 12,000 per year[1]
DirectorJody Brunson
Websitehttp://www.bensonmill.org/

40°38′58″N 112°17′48″W / 40.649387°N 112.296753°W / 40.649387; -112.296753 Benson Grist Mill is a restoration-replica museum located in Tooele County, Utah in the western United States, which allows visitors to see the inner workings of a latter-nineteenth-century pioneer gristmill.[2] It has four other historic (nineteenth-century) buildings which have been moved onto the site, as well as four ancillary structures, including an open-air pavilion. It covers 6.98 acres (2.82 hectare) along State Highway 138, 0.8 mile southwest of the intersection of the Road with State Highway 36 (known as Mills Junction). The museum is owned and operated by a division of Tooele County.[3]

  1. ^ [1] Tooele Transcript-Bulletin, March 14, 2013
  2. ^ 'History of Tooele County,' Tooele County Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1961
  3. ^ "The Benson Grist Mill is operated under the direction of Tooele County Parks & Recreation." (from official website, accessed March 8, 2013)

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